Barbara’s work starts with voice, passes through the physical and results in a character. Her teaching helps total performance.

JUDE LAW

Kursbeskrivelsen er på engelsk, da kursets arbeidsspråk er engelsk.

This workshop will give you tangible ways of developing the full potential of your voice and connecting deeply with any text in a way that is authentic and engaging – whether for stage or screen. The participants will gain advanced vocal, text and acting skills which focus on the individuality of each participant.

The workshop will be highly practical and tailored to the priorities of those attending. Participants are asked to prepare one or two short monologues in which they would like to find a deeper connection and authenticity.
Areas that may be covered – depending on the interests of the group – are:

• Vocal Ease
• Vocal Energy
• Vocal Expression
• Vocal Connection
• Vocal Clarity
• Deeper connection to text – making the text truly your own
• Exploring subtext through the body rather the mind

The workshop will be unique to the group attending. At the heart of all the work will be the focus on authenticity, ease and connection. Starting by exploring what each participant wishes to explore and develop, the week will be tailored around these goals aiming not only to meet them, but to surpass these goals. Barbara works with “kind rigour”, creating a safe space in which participants feel comfortable to stretch and challenge themselves.

Having returned to the stage for the first time in 14 years I recently enlisted the help of Barbara and found her to be hugely helpful , supportive and inspirational .. I rate her as one of the best voice coaches I have come across ..Incisive .. Instinctive ..Specific ..and a great enabler…I feel very lucky to know her and be able to work with her.

CLIVE OWEN

Workshop times
Workshop times are:
Tuesday 24th – Thursday 26th: 10:00-17:00
Friday 27th: 09:00-16:00

The participants are asked to prepare:
Participants are asked to prepare one or two short monologues in which they would like to find a deeper connection and authenticity. These may be in English or Norwegian. If they are in Norwegian please prepare a synopsis of the context in which the speech occurs.

The participants are asked to bring:

• A copy of each piece with the correct punctuation
• Notebook and pen – if they wish to make notes

The participants are asked to wear:

• Comfortable clothing in which it is easy to breathe and to move
• Layers so that they can add or subtract these layers depending on whether we are doing floor work or moving around

Barbara has helped me enormously in creating a foundation to which I have returned time and time again when creating a character. She continues to be a huge source of creative inspiration and I feel very lucky that we have worked together. She is one of the very best.

JESSIE BUCKLEY

(Oscar Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in The Lost Daughter)

Speaking language and working language: English will be the language of the workshop, but pieces may be in Norwegian.

Members of Norsk Skuespillerforbund pays a reduced participant fee.

Barbara Houseman has worked in theatre for more than forty years. Having initially divided her time between Directing and Voice Work, she spent six years in the world renowned Voice Department at the Royal Shakespeare Company then became Associate Director at the Young Vic. For the last 22 years she has worked freelance as a Voice, Text and Acting coach and Associate Director and Director.  Among other private clients she coaches Daniel Radcliffe, Jude Law,  Clive Owen and Jessie Buckley on various projects. In 2009 she joined Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre as Voice and Text Coach and in 2014 became Season Associate Director.  She has worked on numerous shows in the West End including End Game, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Duchess of Malfi, Design for Living & Playboy of the Western World at the Old Vic; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time and The Ferryman at the Gielgud; Macbeth, Richard iii  and Dr Faustus for the Jamie Lloyd company; the All Female Shakespeare Trilogy, St Joan, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Coriolanus, Trelawny of the Wells at the Donmar. She is the author of Finding Your Voice and Tackling Text [and Subtext] both published by Nick Hern Books and of two digital Masterclasses Developing Your Voice and Bringing the Text to Life. Barbara has also trained as a Healing Shiatsu Practitioner, Master NLP Practitioner, Clean Language & Symbolic Modelling Coach, Calling in the One Coach. These have all influenced her work as has her 33 years practising Mindfulness. She now teaches Mindfulness and Self Compassion alongside her voice, acting and directing work. She recently qualified as a Solignment Breath facilitator and is currently training as a Solignment Embodiment facilitator – working with body and breath to unwind deep imprints which hold people back from their full potential.

Webpage: www.BarbaraHouseman.com

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